Sitemap - 2024 - Harry's Last Stand Newsletter
My mother hinted at the different paths her life could have taken while she lay dying in 1999.
Victory in Europe Day 2024 is a farce because we are genocide appeasers.
Like 1938, our society in 2024 is buying time, until a big war begins in earnest.
The working class always struggles to rebel before being worked to death.
A new politics must be born from the ashes of these corrupt times or we are doomed.
When Power is concentrated in the hands of the wealthy few world war is our fate.
"I was determined to forge a path out of Poverty"
If you are poor or working class mental illness will shorten your life by decades.
"In 1937, I despised the empire, the monarchy and the whole rotten system that held it together."
We are Binge Watching our own apocalypse and didn't notice we have reached the end of the cliff.
The April Rain when another war was being waged.
We live in a new Gilded Age, and we are on the outside looking in.
Socialism in a neoliberal world is a day in the life of Sisyphus.
Democracy isn't on the ropes it's down for the count.
March 17, 2020, when normal stopped working.
Pick A Lane Because Otherwise An Eternal Season of Totalitarianism Awaits Us.
Growing up in Nazi Germany ensured my mother's post-war feminism was political and left-wing.
History teaches us-Humanity can only live for so long in chains before it rises up in revolution.
The Journey not the arrival matters-the 101st birthday of rebel and socialist, Harry Leslie Smith.
Childhood was a luxury for the middle classes until the birth of the Welfare State.
There are greater odds for revolution to befall the USA than Russia at the moment.
Anxiety is poverty's co-pilot.
The Wests response to Gaza, put to the sword any pretence that we are a civilised race of creatures.
Covid is the plague that just won't leave, so we can get on with living our best superficial lives.
The Bedbugs of Halifax-The Green & Pleasant Land-Harry Leslie Smith
Britain, Europe, Canada and the USA's war on refugees is a politics Hitler would approve of.
Like 30 years ago, Cuba in 2024 smells of the sea, tobacco and famine thanks to the USA's Embargo.
Covid 19 is the plague that now defines our epoch.
By this time next year- darkness at noon will have come regardless of who becomes US President.
The Green & Pleasant Land in the Year 1931-What was old is new again.
Maybe it won't amount to a hill of beans. But at least future generations will say "They tried."